A Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States 1960-1968 From the Alabama Protests to the Death of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Aptheker, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780806515328
• ISBN10: 0806515325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Citadel Pr

Summary

Completes a definitive history, spanning the seventeenth century to the present, constructed from letters, speeches, leaflets, books, newspaper articles and other documents from the period written by black Americans themselves. Simultaneous.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Angela Y. Davis
Introduction	xix
The Name ``Negro''	3	(9)
Richard B. Moore
The Rebellion of African-American Students: 1960 by Eyewitness Reports	12	(17)
Tallahassee, Florida	13	(4)
Patricia Stephens
Portsmouth, Virginia	17	(2)
Edward Rodman
Nashville, Tennessee	19	(4)
Paul Saprod
Orangeburg, South Carolina	23	(3)
Thomas Gaither
Baton Rouge, Louisiana	26	(3)
Major Johns
Sit-Ins and the NAACP, by the Editors of The Crisis	29	(1)
The Black Press When the ``Sit-Ins'' Begin	30	(3)
Benjamin F. Clark
Racial Intermarriage, by the Editors of The Crisis	33	(1)
An Appeal for Human Rights, by Atlanta University Students	34	(2)
The Cry for Freedom	36	(2)
Thurgood Marshall
Sit-Ins and Pickets	38	(7)
Mazette Watts
``To Rid America of Racial Discrimination''	45	(1)
Ella J. Baker
A Nation-Wide Student Conference by Several Speakers	46	(3)
Al Rozier	47	(1)
Bernard Lee	48	(1)
Rev. Wyatt T. Walker	49	(1)
``The Beauty of the Movement''	49	(1)
A. Keith Guy
The Negro Revolt Against the `Negro Leaders'	50	(10)
Louis E. Lomax
Along the NAACP Battlefront by the Editors of The Crisis	60	(5)
A Plea for Straight Talk Between the Races	65	(2)
Benjamin E. Mays
Strategy to Survive: January-May 1961	67	(4)
James Meredith
A Petition to the Honorable John F. Kennedy	71	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Federal Government and Racist Discrimination, by the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights	74	(5)
The Black Muslims in America	79	(6)
C. Eric Lincoln
Equality Now: The President Has the Power	85	(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Letter from the Magnolia, Mississippi, Jail	94	(1)
Robert Moses
The Kennedy Administration Is Weak	95	(1)
Roy Wilkins
The Southern Black Press Responds to the Freedom Riders	96	(4)
Benjamin F. Clark
``My Sight Is Gone, But My Vision Remains''	100	(2)
Henry Winston
Henry Winston	102	(1)
W. E. B. Du Bois
On Joining the Communist Party	102	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Struggle for the Liberation of the Black Laboring Masses in this Age of a Revolution of Human Rights	105	(3)
A. Philip Randolph
The Albany Movement	108	(5)
James Forman
On Vietnam, U.S. Should Remember France's ``Humiliating Defeat''	113	(2)
Robert S. Browne
A Proposal of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee	115	(5)
James Forman
Police Brutality: Mississippi by Several Survivors	120	(3)
The Travel Journal of a Black Woman in the South	123	(5)
Betty Rice Hughes
Separation or Integration: A Debate	128	(21)
Malcolm X
James Farmer
The Tuskegee Voting Story	149	(5)
Charles G. Gomillion
``Entire Equality Must and Will Be''	154	(4)
Ralph J. Bunche
``The Day I Became A Man''	158	(1)
Charles McLaurin
A Challenge To Artists	159	(5)
Lorraine Hansberry
Not Progress but Freedom	164	(6)
Loren Miller
A Letter to My Nephew	170	(4)
James Baldwin
On the Encyclopaedia Africana	174	(3)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The Fire Next Time	177	(7)
James Baldwin
Ten Demands in Nashville	184	(1)
Black Citizens
What We Want	185	(1)
Elijah Muhammad
Harlem Rent Strike Rally, Speeches	186	(4)
James Baldwin
John Lewis
``Those Who Want to Be Free''	190	(2)
Robert P. Moses
The Birmingham Manifesto	192	(2)
F. L. Shuttlesworth
N. H. Smith
Imprisoned Children ``Serve Their Time,'' by New York Times Correspondents	194	(3)
A New Solidarity in Struggle for Human Dignity	197	(3)
Robert C. Weaver
The Funeral of Medgar W. Evers	200	(7)
James E. Jackson
Birmingham: The Moment of Truth	207	(7)
Bayard Rustin
The Police Terror in Birmingham	214	(5)
Len Holt
Letter from Birmingham City Jail	219	(17)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Harlem Is A Condition of Life,'' by the Editors of Freedomways	236	(1)
Notes from Southern Diaries by Various Authors	237	(5)
``An Outcry for Justice''	242	(1)
A. Philip Randolph
On the March on Washington	243	(1)
Bayard Rustin
Malcolm X
``A Massive Moral Revolution''	243	(1)
A. Philip Randolph
The March on Washington	244	(1)
Roy Wilkins
A Serious Revolution	245	(5)
John Lewis
I Have A Dream	250	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eulogy for the Martyred Children	254	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Bedford-Stuyvesant: A Land of Superlatives	257	(6)
Milton A. Galamison
``Now or Never: Anger Mounting''	263	(8)
Lakhmond Robinson
Birmingham: Deliberate Mass Murder	271	(2)
James E. Jackson
The Negro Revolt	273	(4)
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
The Black Press on President Kennedy's Assassination	277	(1)
Marion Butts
``More Rats Than People''	278	(2)
Jesse Gray
``Having a Baby Inside Me Is the Only Time I Feel Alive,'' by a Black Woman Talking to Robert Coles	280	(2)
What Is Wrong?, by a Twelve-Year-Old Girl	282	(1)
Literacy and Liberation	282	(4)
Septima P. Clark
The Movement, So Far	286	(2)
Lerone Bennett, Jr.
``Is This America?''	288	(3)
Fannie Lou Hamer
My Trip to Mecca	291	(1)
Malcolm X
``Overwhelming Spirit of True Brotherhood by People of All Colors and Races''	292	(1)
Malcolm X
``All Men As Brothers''	293	(2)
Malcolm X
The Battle of San Francisco	295	(6)
John Pittman
Defending the Flag in Ghana	301	(3)
Adger E. Player
The Churches Will Follow	304	(3)
Benjamin E. Mays
On Black Nationalism	307	(1)
Malcolm X
``A Temporary Change of Emphasis''	308	(3)
Roy Wilkins
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
A. Philip Randolph
``What Do They Want?''	311	(2)
Langston Hughes
``I Am Sick and Tired''	313	(1)
Dave Dennis
``There's Got to Be a Change''	314	(1)
Fannie Lou Hamer
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the 1964 Convention	314	(4)
Charles M. Sherrod
The Southern Black Press and 1964 Developments	318	(2)
Benjamin F. Clark
The Democratic Party's Betrayal	320	(2)
James Forman
A Plea for ``Moderation''	322	(4)
Rev. J. M. Jackson
Try To Live There Just One Day	326	(2)
Fannie Lee Chaney
The Albany Movement: Birth and Early History	328	(6)
Slater King
Freedom-Here and Now	334	(3)
Gloria Richardson
Medical Mission to Mississippi	337	(3)
V. McKinley Wiles
From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement	340	(3)
Bayard Rustin
``I Still Wince''	343	(1)
Roy Wilkins
The Cry of the Ghetto, compiled	344	(8)
Kenneth B. Clark
The Protest Against Housing Segregation	352	(2)
Loren Miller
Malcolm Knew He Was a ``Marked Man''	354	(1)
Theodore Jones
Our Shining Black Prince	355	(2)
Ossie Davis
The Urban League and Its Strategy	357	(2)
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
``Don't You Realize I'm A Negro?''	359	(3)
James Forman
Visiting Africa and Living in Mississippi	362	(2)
Fannie Lou Hamer
``Crisis in Rights''	364	(1)
A. Philip Randolph
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The War in Vietnam Must Be Stopped	364	(1)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Keep My Mouth Shut''	365	(2)
Wesley R. Brazier
The Watts Uprising	367	(1)
Roy Wilkins
Watts Burns With Rage	368	(5)
James E. Jackson
Supporting Armed Self-Defense	373	(6)
Charles R. Sims
Past Victories, Future Needs: Albany, Georgia	379	(4)
Slater King
Desegregating Schools: ``One of the Problems,'' by Unknown Black Parent in Deep South	383	(1)
The Threshold of a New Reconstruction	384	(3)
J. H. O'Dell
Next Step the North	387	(6)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Traveling Jim Crow	393	(2)
Mahalia Jackson
The Killing of an Agitator	395	(2)
James Forman
Opposing the U.S. War in Vietnam, by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee	397	(2)
Creating the Black Panther Movement	399	(6)
John Hulett
The Black Panther Party Platform	405	(1)
Huey Newton
``Tired Of Being Walked Over''	406	(1)
Millie Thompson
``The Poor People of Mississippi Is Tired,''	406	(1)
Unita Blackwell
``Action Before It Is Too Late''	407	(1)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Politics of Necessity and Survival in Mississippi	408	(3)
Lawrence Guyot
Mike Thelwell
``Despair and Hatred Continue to Brew''	411	(2)
Bayard Rustin
``The Kids Play With Rats,'' by Black People in Cleveland, Ohio	413	(10)
``Black Power,'' Statement by the National Committee of Negro Churchmen	423	(6)
``We Have to Get Black Power''	429	(4)
Stokely Carmichael
To Wipe Out Slums, Ghettoes, and Racism, by the Chicago Freedom Movement	433	(4)
``Bring Power to Both Black and White''	437	(1)
Whitney M. Young, Jr.
``Too Long Have We Allowed White People...,'' Position Paper of SNCC	438	(2)
Meet the Press: A Discussion	440	(1)
Carl Rowan
``Black Power'' and Coalition Politics	441	(4)
Bayard Rustin
Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom	445	(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Racism and the Elections: The American Dilemma, 1966, by The National Committee of Negro Churchmen	454	(4)
On Becoming a Muslim	458	(5)
Muhammad Ali
On the Vietnam War	463	(1)
Muhammad Ali
``I Raised My Hand, as High as I Could''	463	(2)
Fannie Lou Hamer
Battling Racism in Northern California	465	(8)
John Pittman
Black Power and the American Christ	473	(4)
Vincent Harding
We Are a Political Unit	477	(2)
James Forman
A Time to Break Silence	479	(10)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Disobedience May Be Necessary	489	(4)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
California's Bay Area, Sworn Testimony	493	(11)
Higher Education and the Negro	504	(5)
Benjamin E. Mays
``No Respect for the People Here,'' by Residents of Buffalo, New York	509	(1)
Uprisings in Newark and Detroit, by the Editors of Freedomways	510	(2)
Developing African-American Nationalist Feelings: The Newark Conference of 1967, the Delegates' Resolution	512	(1)
Huey Must Be Set Free!, by the Black Panther	513	(3)
A Christmas Sermon on Peace	516	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Where do We Go From Here?	519	(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``Deepening the American Consciousness''	528	(1)
A. Philip Randolph
Unity and Militancy For Freedom and Equality	529	(9)
Henry Winston
The Platform of the Black Panther Party	538	(1)
Bobby Seale
Honoring Dr. Du Bois	539	(3)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``The Ugly Atmosphere''	542	(1)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``I See the Promised Land''	542	(2)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Warning Martin Luther King, Jr.	544	(1)
Roy Wilkins
Showdown for Nonviolence	545	(9)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
``It Is Already Very, Very Late''	554	(17)
James Baldwin
Index	571